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rapacious

[ruh-pey-shuhs] / rəˈpeɪ ʃəs /


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"The Moment" satirises the consequences of her hit 2024 album "brat", as rapacious record company executives and a film director played by Alexander Skarsgard seek to jump on the juggernaut.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Parkanyi vets every submission, weeding out couples who appear rapacious for money, or those who demand a specific type of foreigner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

But the cynicism that has always thrummed underneath his high-concept comedies — the dehumanizing algorithms, the rapacious finance system — is more prominent in this slim, potent novel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025

“It wouldn’t work. The United States has a rapacious appetite for pushing kids. But I can at least make sure a child is given their sweet time in kindergarten,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

They often collected in prodigious, not to say rapacious, quantities.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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